Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 06:03, Joey Hess wrote: > > - I was out of the room for X config, and she gave up on the fun > > screen where it asks (uselessly on i386) for a PCI ID of the video > > card. > > I think that statement ("useless on i386") is _not_ true for graphic cards > that support dual heads. Ok, true. It's still annoying enough that my sister gave up at this point. > > I think that this is possibly aggravated by discover/hotplug wanting to > > load two sound drivers, because in addition to i810_audio, it or > > hotplug loaded snd_intel8x0 (alsa, right?). Here's how lsmod ended up > > looking after I blacklisted i810_audio: > > Installing alsa-base takes care of blacklisting OSS modules for you. I noticed that it turned them off in modprobe.d; I suppose that will do it. > > If acpid had been installed, I think it would have taken care of > > loading all those modules. And it's needed for the gnome battery > > monitor anyway. We need a laptop task! However, I think that even with > > that, unconditionally register-moduleing fan and thermal is good from a > > belt and suspenders POV. > > Yes, acpid takes care of loading the acpi modules, however putting acpid > in a laptop task and installing that by default is not a good idea as > some older laptops don't support acpi but need apmd. > The same goes for a lot of other laptop (often make-specific) packages: > works with some models, but useless or even harmful on others. > My preference would be to let the user figure it out for himself, unless > we are very sure. My idea for a laptop task is to do acpi / apm / whatever detection and install a tuned set of packages. -- see shy jo
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